Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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Perry Evans - Will the Promise of Location Based Ad Models Ever Get Off the Ground?
Perry Evans, CEO of Local Matters, discusses the differences between the daydream of LBS advertising and the reality in this Where 2.0 presentation. If more precision is better, then highly targeted geographic advertising that location based services (LBS) and applications allow should mean greater …
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Ray Anderson - Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
Moira speaks with Ray Anderson, the founder and chair of the worlds largest manufacturer of modular carpet. He discusses his book, "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist", and talks about his personal epiphany around the environmental impact of carpet.
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Peggy Willcocks - The Parkinsons Pipeline Project
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peggy Willcocks, a Parkinsons patient and advocate, about The Parkinsons Pipeline Project and helps those who wish to volunteer for scientific studies.
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Episode 71 - StackOverflow
A collection of clips recorded at the San Francisco DevDays conference including Joel Spolsky, Mark Harrison, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman and Rory Blythe.
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Sean Quinlan - Storage at Scale
Googles web scale problems are too large to rely on physical hardware. In this talk from the 2008 Velocity Conference, Sean Quinlan of Google describes their software-based approach to reliably retrieving data thats distributed across millions of machines around the world.
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Chris DiBona - Your Work in Open Source, the Numbers
Everyone knows Google crawls websites - but did you know they also crawl your source code? Googles Open Source Programs manager Chris DiBona provides a quick but insightful look into the state of open source code on the Internet.
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Rob Shanks - ArcGIS and the Web: Better Sharing of Geographic Information
Rob Shanks discusses web based GIS technology and the features available in Arc GIS online. Showcasing the free databases and webkits available within the online community for publishing and sharing data this short talk gives a small preview on the future of GIS within the cloud.
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Kevin Maney - Trade-Off
Moira speaks with Kevin Maney about the trade-off we make when we buy products. Are the products hip, cool, or high-quality? Or is cheap and easy more important? This is the subject of his book "Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Dont".
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Episode 70 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss DevDays, the diversity of Stack Exchange sites, the debut of CVs and careers on Stack Overflow, and the viability of WiFi at tech conferences.
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Dirk Hohndel - Intel and Open Source: Netbooks
Built for portability, netbooks may represent the first computers conceived from the outset with Linux in mind. Intels Dirk Hohndel describes the firms strategic vision for Open Source using the netbook OS Moblin as an example.
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Daniel Debow - How to Get Honest Feedback
How can you solicit honest feedback from friends and business associates? Rypple co-founder Daniel Debow says that his companys new service is the answer. Its quick, its easy, and its anonymous. Its true that online anonymity can often lead to trouble online. But Daniel Debow tells host Jon Udell th …
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Greg Papadopoulos - Citizen Engineer
Moira speaks with Greg Papadopoulos, co-author of Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. The book focuses on two topics that are becoming vitally important in the day-to-day work of engineers: eco engineering and intellectual property (IP).
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Eve Maler - User-Managed Access (UMA)
Eve Maler discusses her work on User-Managed Access (UMA). In addition to discussing the concept of UMA, she gives examples of its use, as well as her work with the User Managed Access Working Group at the Kantara Initiative and how UMA relates to Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), p …
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Florent Stroppa - Creating New Opportunities from Android Openness
Mobile application developers usually groan at having to support yet another operating system, so in this eComm 2009 talk why does Voxmobilis Director of Product Management, Florent Stroppa, applaud the arrival of Android?
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Victoria Stodden - Reproducibility of Computational Science
If youre a writer, a musician, or an artist, you can use Creative Commons licenses to share your digital works. But how can scientists license their work for sharing? In this conversation, Victoria Stodden -- a fellow with Science Commons -- explains to host Jon Udell why scientific output is differ …
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Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell - Total Recall
Moira talks with Gorden Bell and Jim Gemmell about what it means to digitally record everything in our lives. The authors of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything discuss how new technologies allow average people to record their entire lives.
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Dr. Bill Cheliak - Environmental Effects on Genetics
Moira speaks with Dr. Bill Cheliak, Vice President for Business Development, Neurodyn about how the environment can affect genetics and contribute to disease.
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Episode 69 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff sit down with Peter Seibel to discuss his new book Coders At Work, the effect of listening to music while coding, and the future of programming books.
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Eric Lawrence - Fiddler
Microsofts Eric Lawrence describes Fiddler, his free Web Debugging tool that enables capture, replay, and modification of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from virtually any application.
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Michael Lopp - A Brief History of Software
In this OSCON presentation Michael Lopp, author of the blog Rands in Repose, takes a trip down memory lane to 1992, and brings a few lessons in software development back to the future. He discusses the well intentioned forces of evil that can make us stray from the path of tight coding, and how, in …
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
